Is there a technology yet that can share fonts between the sender and receiver of email?

[Jeff M. Ingram]

Hello,

I've wondered if there is a technology yet that can share fonts between the
sender and receiver? So that if I compose a message using a particular
font the recipient of the message won't have to have the font already
installed on there system in order to be able to see the font that I used to
compose the message. If I use Vivaldi or Space Toaster to compose my
message the recipient won't have to have either one installed first to be
able to see the message with these fonts.

Does such a technology exist yet?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/ (you can search the
web for weft or outlook express eot to get information on how to embed a
font)

 

[Character]

Hello,

I've wondered if there is a technology yet that can share fonts between the
sender and receiver? So that if I compose a message using a particular
font the recipient of the message won't have to have the font already
installed on there system in order to be able to see the font that I used to
compose the message. If I use Vivaldi or Space Toaster to compose my
message the recipient won't have to have either one installed first to be
able to see the message with these fonts.

Does such a technology exist yet?

Thanks,

Jeff

If you're talking about e-mail messages, the answer is no. But what you
CAN do is create your message in MSWord (or equivalent) or create a pdf,
and use the embed fonts option. Then send your message as an attachment.
IF the fonts are embeddable, they will become part of the document.
Every ttf font has an "embed" flag that specifies what level of
embedding is legal for that font - the settings are "Not embeddable"
"Viewable" "Editable" and "Installable". You can use the Microsoft Font
Properties Extension (google for it) to see what the flag is for each
font.

I suppose there's some way to do it with HTML, but regardless of what
Microsoft is pushing, HTML email is a major source of potential malware.
Just look at the current Bagel-Q virus variant, which uses exactly that
technique for spreading itself without the need for opening attachments.

- Character

 

[Alan]

Hello,

I've wondered if there is a technology yet that can share fonts between the
sender and receiver? So that if I compose a message using a particular
font the recipient of the message won't have to have the font already
installed on there system in order to be able to see the font that I used to
compose the message. If I use Vivaldi or Space Toaster to compose my
message the recipient won't have to have either one installed first to be
able to see the message with these fonts.

Does such a technology exist yet?

Aside from bitmaps, Acrobat PDFs do this. Also I think Word files let
you embed fonts, though I've no experience with that.